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New Radiohead Album "In Rainbows"
ScrambledGregs:
It is a really great album. The lyrics and music aren't as experimental and/or abstract as they have been. A few songs seem to even be simple love songs.
It's kind of like Radiohead figured they have nothing more to prove so they just wrote a great album and didn't worry about trying to ush music forward or continue to surprise.
Johnny C:
Is there a cutoff date for diskbox orders?
I just need to make sure I can spare the eighty dollars.
amok:
--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 11 Oct 2007, 09:29 ---It does feel a tiny bit short.
--- End quote ---
This is probably because it's going to be paired with a CD2/2nd LP in the big ol' fat disk box release thing. We're effectively hearing half of the album early.
ScrambledGregs:
You say "half of the album" but this is the album. All that other stuff was left off for a reason.
That's the fucking problem with CDs. Everybody decided that since they could hold 80ish minutes, then they should. I may be a purist here, but I hate when reissues have all kinds of bonus tracks stuck right after the album ends. They could at least have 30 seconds or so of silence to help you cleanse your palette, y'know??
I guess I place a lot of trust in the band/artist, and that they wanted the album to contain that many songs as a singular piece of art. I think it's why Beck's The Information bothers me, because he's essentially saying "here, you take all these songs and stickers and you decide what the album should be." That's a fun experiment and all, but it ends up making the individual songs better at the expense of watering down the album as a whole.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, if your album is longer than 50 minutes, you better have a damn good reason to be that long. Otherwise, split it into two albums.
Which brings us back to Radiohead. I'm almost positive that somewhere they said Kid A and Amnesiac were originally going to be a double album, but decided to split them into two releases after some debate. I agree wholeheartedly with this decision, and it's why I like the idea of them releasing In Rainbows in a lean, pure form and then giving us the option to go whole hog with a disc box. Personally I think it's harder to make a great album that's short than a mediocre album that's long.
StaedlerMars:
I'm sure tommy ranted about this recently... probably in the 'why aren't hipsters allowed to like cds' thread.
Not that I don't agree. If an album is going to be much longer than 40 minutes, it probably won't have my full attention anyway. I'd probably miss many songs.
I like this album, I haven't given it a proper listen yet (it's longer than 40 minutes) but the first few songs are great. Lots of bass, lots of drum. A lot more electronic. Lots of great bass riffs too.
I also think you need a decenter sound installation than mine to properly enjoy it.
Edit: realized i was responding to the poster above me
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